In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 89
“She always loved cherry-flowers; and I know that she wanted very much to see that Yamato-tree in blossom.
Who acts: voice, last wish · What happens: love, know, want, see · To what, where: cherry flowers, Yamato tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, last wish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 loved | advmod |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flowers | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 cherry | punct |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loved | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 wanted | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wanted | nsubj |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 wanted | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 much | acl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 tree | mark |
| 20 | Yamato | Yamato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Yamato | punct |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 blossom | case |
| 24 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | past | voice | cherry flowers | always property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | voice's last wish = wish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | past | voice | Yamato tree in blossom | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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